Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

T.S.Eliot, 'Four Quartets'

Julia Bartha - Piano

Julia Bartha, born in 1972 in Göttingen, started her musical training in the classes of Gerrit Zitterbart, Konrad Meister and Heidi Köhler, before taking up her graduate studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover Academy for Music and Theatre where she took her final diploma as concert pianist.

In master classes she has worked with Dmitri Bashkirov in Salzburg and with John O’Conor in Positano, Italy. She completed her studies at the Academy of Music in Zürich with Homero Francesch.

At the age of fourteen she made her debut as soloist with Grieg’s piano concerto and in the following years, won several prizes in national and international competitions. In 1990 she won the first prize in the finale of the nationwide German youth music competition Jugend Musiziert and in the same year was one of the eight candidates in the semi-final of the ARD music competition run by a national television company in Munich. In 1997 she won a prize in the Viotti piano competition in Vercelli, Italy, and was one of the four finalists in the celebrated Clara Haskil Competition in Vervey, Switzerland in 1999.

From 1994 to 1999 Julia Bartha was supported by a scholarship awarded by the Study Foundation of the German People. She was awarded a prize by the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation in Lübeck and since 2000 has been on the list of young solo artists recommended by the German Music Council.

Concert tours have taken her to Ireland, Holland and Switzerland. She has played with distinguished orchestras under conductors such as Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Gabriel Feltz, Georg Fritzsch, Christian Simonis, Nicholas McGegan and Saulius Sondeckis.

Julia Bartha has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Lower Saxony Music Festival and made a guest appearance in 2004 at the Handel Festival in Göttingen.

In addition to solo concertos and chamber music she is particularly interested in programmes combining literature and music, in which she works with Cornelia Froboess and Rainer Piwek (Thalia-Theater Hamburg).